App strategy and marketing firm App Promo has launched their second Annual App Developers Survey. Last year, App Promo found that nearly 60% of app developers were not generating enough revenue to break even with development of their apps. This year App Promo wants to see how developers promote and monetize their apps. If you are a [...]
Our leaderboards are a great resource for anyone interested in mobile apps globally. These leaderboards list the most popular free, paid and grossing applications daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly per country and per category for the Apple App Store for iPhone, the Apple App Store for iPad and Google Play. Combining the monthly leaderboards across all [...]
The smartphone’s primary function used to be calling and texting, however, over the years communication via apps have increased in popularity instead. Popular communication applications across the globe are WhatsApp, LINE and Facebook Messenger. Earlier in March 2013, a new communication app was released in the Apple App Store and Google Play: MessageMe by MessageMe, Inc. [...]
Market strategy firm Vision Mobile has just launched their seminal mobile developer survey Developer Economics 2013. This Developer Economics is focusing on future of app development, platforms and HTML vs. native development. For an idea on the report’s contents, please find the previous version here. If you are a developer and interested to have your say, start the survey here. There [...]
For months Supercell’s Clash of Clans has dominated Apple App Store’s charts of being the most revenue generating application all over the world. However, there is a new kid in town! King.com’s Candy Crush Saga is challenging Clash of Clans’ hegemony on the top. In the United States, Clash of Clans still ranks #1 in [...]
Since last Wednesday, Google Play has restored paid applications in its store in Taiwan. The Taiwanese government had banned paid content after ordering the major application stores to include a seven-day free-trial policy for all applications in June 2011. Last December, Google won a lawsuit against the Taiwanese government, which allowed Google to return paid [...]
We’re please to share our first monthly publication of 2013. This month’s publication focuses on the effect of price changes on download volumes and revenue in the Apple App Store for iPhone and iPad. Many developers discount their apps from time to time, with some of them being very successful. We take a look at our data to learn [...]
On Friday November 23rd, we were present at Droidcon NL 2012 in Amsterdam. We hosted a session about the main characteristics of the major application stores. The main focus was on monetization and localization in the Google Play. The slides that were showed during this session are available below. If you have questions or feedback, please let [...]
Due to an error in our webinar email, the link pointed to the previous webinar slides on App Translations. You can find the correct slides from the Global Brands webinar here. — On Monday October 8, we hosted our first Month Report Webinar. The topic of this webinar was ‘The Impact of App Translations’, which [...]
The app ecosystem is one of the first truly global markets as all major app stores operate in the majority of the countries. Despite the global characteristics of the app ecosystem, content in each store largely differs from country to country. The focus on localization explains these differences. Apps could be localized with local promotional [...]